Deeplinks

With the passage of the USA Freedom Act, we’ve gained important reforms of the intelligence community, but there’s still a lot to do, including reining in the NSA’s warrantless mass surveillance of Americans’ Internet communications under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA). That’s why EFF yesterday filed an amicus brief along with the ACLU and the ACLU of Oregon in United States v. Mohamud, a criminal case currently on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit involving Section 702 surveillance.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has joined a global coalition of 65 organizations in support of groups in Paraguay, who are urging their legislators to reject a mandatory data retention bill outright. The bill, to be voted on Thursday June 4th, would compel local ISPs to retain communications and location details of every user for a period of 12 months. Such retention would violate international human rights standards and Paraguayans’ basic privacy rights.

We’re excited to announce that Canarywatch has added its 50th canary: First Look Media, the parent company for The Intercept—the news site created by journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Jeremy Scahill.

"Warrant canary" is a colloquial term for a regularly published statement that an internet service provider (ISP) has not received legal process that it would be prohibited from saying it had received, such as a national security letter.